Two quick calculators for the two most expensive hiring mistakes — the seat you leave open, and the person you get wrong. No sign-up to use them.
What an unfilled engineering, construction, or leadership role is costing you per day, week, and month — and why waiting builds pressure to settle.
Calculate the cost of waiting →The true, line-by-line cost of a senior hire that doesn’t work out — compensation, lost productivity, hiring twice, and exit.
Calculate the cost of a bad hire →The cost of waiting is the symptom; a bad hire is where it ends. RIQIndex™ shows why your process lets it happen — and our exclusive-contingency search is how you break the chain.
They are usually treated as separate risks. They are the same one at two stages — a vacancy that runs long creates pressure to settle, and settling is the most common way a bad hire happens. If you are deciding whether to wait for the right person, run both.
Each calculator shows the formula it uses, the research the defaults are drawn from, and where the estimate is deliberately conservative. Both run in your browser. Nothing you type is submitted, and neither asks for an email.
Free, and no. Nothing is gated, there is no email wall, and you can use either one as many times as you like. They exist because the numbers are useful whether or not you ever speak to us.
No. Both calculators run entirely in your browser — nothing you type is sent to us, logged, or stored anywhere. Close the tab and it is gone. That is deliberate: a salary figure is exactly the kind of thing nobody should have to hand over to get an estimate.
Each calculator shows the formula it uses and the research behind each input, on the page, under the result. Nothing is a black box — if you disagree with an assumption you can see it and change it.
If you are deciding whether to wait for the right person, run both. One prices the seat being empty; the other prices it being filled by the wrong person. They are usually treated as separate risks, and they are the same risk at two stages — a vacancy that runs long creates the pressure to settle, and settling is the most common way a bad hire happens.